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9780761954347 Academic Inspection Copy

Identity and Difference

  • ISBN-13: 9780761954347
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS
    Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
  • Edited by Kathryn Woodward
  • Price: AUD $133.00
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  • Local release date: 01/05/1997
  • Format: Paperback (246.00mm X 189.00mm) 320 pages Weight: 710g
  • Categories: Cultural studies [JFC]Physical anthropology [JHMP]
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This text outlines the challenge presented by key debates on identity to central questions of gender, sexuality, embodiment, health, "race" and nation. It includes discussion of: the importance of identity and difference in the contemporary world at multiple levels - global, local and personal; the ways in which identities are constructed for and by individuals; notions of the fixity of identity and difference; explanations of identity and difference from essentialist, social constructionist, psychoanalytic, feminist and discursive approaches; and the complexity of contemporary identities through a range of examples including popular discourses of motherhood, ideas of the healthy body and diaspora identities.
Kathryn Woodward is a Regional Staff Tutor for Sociology for The Open University CONTRIBUTORS Susan Benson University of Cambridge Paul Gilroy Goldsmiths College University of London Lynne Segal Middlesex University Chris Shilling University of Portsmouth
Introduction - Kathryn Woodward Concepts of Difference and Identity - Kathryn Woodward The Body and Difference - Chris Shilling The Body, Health and Eating Disorders - Susan Benson Sexualities - Lynne Segal Motherhood - Kathryn Woodward Identities, Meanings and Myths Diaspora and the Detours of Identity - Paul Gilroy
`The book is easy to use and its layout demonstrates some skill in constructing volumes that `work' as study guides and reference tools. The merit of this book goes well beyond its suitability for course applications. Contemporary ideas on identity provide new meanings for an old concept' - Multilingual and Multicultural
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